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Van Leeuwen, Jean

The Amazing Air Balloon

32 pp. | Fogelman | March, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2258-3 $$16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Marco Ventura. In 1784, a thirteen-year-old boy named Edward Warren was the first person in the U.S. to go aloft in a hot-air balloon, one constructed by Peter Carnes outside Baltimore. From this single fact, Van Leeuwen has imagined an empowering story of a blacksmith's apprentice whose zeal for the project is rewarded by circumstances. Illustrations in oil are detailed and handsome, if stiff.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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